The Yamaha 357 cc golf cart engines, as well as many other small air cooled engines, use a splash lubrication system and don't have an oil filter. For example, many of the excellent Honda small air cooled engines use splash lubrication and don't have an oil filter. Yamaha warranties their golf cart engines for 5000 hours if you use Yamalube and follow their recommended oil change frequency. This amounts to about 80,000 miles. I am pretty sure the engine will outlast the rest of the golf cart. There are tens of thousands of Yamaha gas golf carts in The Villages that are running around every day doing just fine.
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Originally Posted by Kerry Azz
I’m cot sure what they were thinking when they designed the Yamaha engine without an oil filter. This is just a comment bur their design team baffles me. And no I won’t ever own one simply because of that.
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